Tight security in UP after intel alert on terror attack on August 5

LUCKNOW: A high alert has been sounded in Ayodhya, its adjoining districts and other places of religious importance in UP following intelligence inputs of a possible “fidayeen” attack during the bhoomi poojan for the Ram temple in Ayodhya on August 5.
Tight security arrangements will be in place for bhoomi poojan, which coincides with the first anniversary of the nullification of Article 370. Heightened vigil will continue till Independence Day. The DGP’s office has also instructed nine senior officers to camp in districts around Ayodhya.
ADG (law and order) Prashant Kumar said police chiefs of the districts concerned had been directed by the DGP to conduct regular security drills and carry out checking at all bus and railway stations and district borders. The UP police has also asked the district police chiefs of Pilibhit, Lakhimpur Kheri, Bahraich, Shravasti, Balrampur, Sidhharthnagar and Maharajganj, bordering Nepal, to intensify patrolling and coordinate with their SSB counterparts. DIG (Ayodhya) Deepak Kumar said security layers were being prepared according to the protocol.